Error retrieving device properties for ro.product.cpu.abi: error: insufficient permissions for device.

[ThePlatzhalter]

Problem

I'm trying to run an untouched flutter generated app on my LG G5 H850, but I keep getting an error. Also, the device never asked me to allow my computer's ADB fingerprint, although I even removed all authorizations in the developer options.

Solution idea

I assume that this lack of authorization is the cause of the problem, but how do I make flutter authorize itself?

Logs

flutter run -v

[00:34 linux ~/IdeaProjects/spin]$ flutter run -v
[  +24 ms] [/opt/flutter/] git rev-parse --abbrev-ref --symbolic @{u}
[  +24 ms] Exit code 0 from: git rev-parse --abbrev-ref --symbolic @{u}
[        ] origin/alpha
[        ] [/opt/flutter/] git ls-remote --get-url origin
[   +5 ms] Exit code 0 from: git ls-remote --get-url origin
[        ] https://github.com/flutter/flutter.git
[        ] [/opt/flutter/] git log -n 1 --pretty=format:%H
[   +5 ms] Exit code 0 from: git log -n 1 --pretty=format:%H
[        ] 973304d5fbf737510ecc250b93d9ee2e872b563f
[        ] [/opt/flutter/] git log -n 1 --pretty=format:%ar
[   +5 ms] Exit code 0 from: git log -n 1 --pretty=format:%ar
[        ] 7 days ago
[ +148 ms] Listing devices using /home/linux/Android/Sdk/platform-tools/adb
[   +1 ms] /home/linux/Android/Sdk/platform-tools/adb devices -l
[   +5 ms] Exit code 0 from: /home/linux/Android/Sdk/platform-tools/adb devices -l
[        ] List of devices attached
           LGH850f3ea9778         no permissions; see [http://developer.android.com/tools/device.html] usb:2-1.3
[  +14 ms] /home/linux/Android/Sdk/platform-tools/adb -s LGH850f3ea9778 shell getprop
[  +30 ms] Error retrieving device properties for ro.product.cpu.abi:
[   +4 ms] error: insufficient permissions for device.
           See [http://developer.android.com/tools/device.html] for more information.
           
[ +512 ms] Launching lib/main.dart on LGH850f3ea9778 in debug mode...
[  +75 ms] Using gradle from /home/linux/Applications/android-studio/gradle/gradle-3.2/bin/gradle.
[   +2 ms] [android/] /home/linux/Applications/android-studio/gradle/gradle-3.2/bin/gradle app:properties
[+1526 ms] Exit code 0 from: /home/linux/Applications/android-studio/gradle/gradle-3.2/bin/gradle app:properties
[  +53 ms] /home/linux/Android/Sdk/platform-tools/adb -s LGH850f3ea9778 logcat -v time -t 1
^C

flutter analyze -v

[00:35 linux ~/IdeaProjects/spin]$ flutter analyze -v
[  +30 ms] [/opt/flutter/] git rev-parse --abbrev-ref --symbolic @{u}
[  +34 ms] Exit code 0 from: git rev-parse --abbrev-ref --symbolic @{u}
[        ] origin/alpha
[        ] [/opt/flutter/] git ls-remote --get-url origin
[   +6 ms] Exit code 0 from: git ls-remote --get-url origin
[        ] https://github.com/flutter/flutter.git
[        ] [/opt/flutter/] git log -n 1 --pretty=format:%H
[   +6 ms] Exit code 0 from: git log -n 1 --pretty=format:%H
[        ] 973304d5fbf737510ecc250b93d9ee2e872b563f
[        ] [/opt/flutter/] git log -n 1 --pretty=format:%ar
[   +6 ms] Exit code 0 from: git log -n 1 --pretty=format:%ar
[        ] 7 days ago
[ +164 ms] /opt/flutter/bin/cache/dart-sdk/bin/dartanalyzer --packages /home/linux/IdeaProjects/spin/.packages /home/linux/IdeaProjects/spin
[+1166 ms] Analyzing /home/linux/IdeaProjects/spin...
[+6969 ms] No issues found!
[  +55 ms] Ran in 8.2s
[  +35 ms] "flutter analyze" took 8,320ms.
[ +175 ms] ensureAnalyticsSent: 172ms
[   +2 ms] exiting with code 0

flutter doctor -v

[00:35 linux ~/IdeaProjects/spin]$ flutter doctor -v
[  +24 ms] [/opt/flutter/] git rev-parse --abbrev-ref --symbolic @{u}
[  +24 ms] Exit code 0 from: git rev-parse --abbrev-ref --symbolic @{u}
[        ] origin/alpha
[        ] [/opt/flutter/] git ls-remote --get-url origin
[   +5 ms] Exit code 0 from: git ls-remote --get-url origin
[        ] https://github.com/flutter/flutter.git
[        ] [/opt/flutter/] git log -n 1 --pretty=format:%H
[   +5 ms] Exit code 0 from: git log -n 1 --pretty=format:%H
[        ] 973304d5fbf737510ecc250b93d9ee2e872b563f
[        ] [/opt/flutter/] git log -n 1 --pretty=format:%ar
[   +5 ms] Exit code 0 from: git log -n 1 --pretty=format:%ar
[        ] 7 days ago
[ +753 ms] [✓] Flutter (on Linux, channel alpha)
[   +7 ms]     • Flutter at /opt/flutter
[        ]     • Framework revision 973304d5fb (7 days ago), 2017-05-18 17:31:57 -0700
[        ]     • Engine revision f99d3ef108
[        ]     • Tools Dart version 1.23.0-dev.11.11
[  +99 ms] java -version
[  +54 ms] [✓] Android toolchain - develop for Android devices (Android SDK 25.0.3)
[        ]     • Android SDK at /home/linux/Android/Sdk
[        ]     • Platform android-25, build-tools 25.0.3
[        ]     • Java binary at: /home/linux/Applications/android-studio/jre/bin/java
[        ]     • Java version: OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_112-release-b06)
[   +1 ms] [✓] Android Studio (version 2.3)
[        ]     • Android Studio at /home/linux/Applications/android-studio
[        ]     • Gradle version 3.2
[        ]     • Java version: OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_112-release-b06)
[ +463 ms] [✓] IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate Edition (version 2017.1)
[        ]     • Dart plugin version 171.4424
[        ]     • Flutter plugin version 14.0
[  +30 ms] [-] WebStorm (version 2017.1)
[        ]     • Flutter plugin not installed; this adds Flutter specific functionality.
[        ]     • For information about managing plugins, see
                 https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/managing-plugins.html
[   +8 ms] Listing devices using /home/linux/Android/Sdk/platform-tools/adb
[        ] /home/linux/Android/Sdk/platform-tools/adb devices -l
[   +6 ms] Exit code 0 from: /home/linux/Android/Sdk/platform-tools/adb devices -l
[        ] List of devices attached
           LGH850f3ea9778         no permissions; see [http://developer.android.com/tools/device.html] usb:2-1.3
[  +15 ms] /home/linux/Android/Sdk/platform-tools/adb -s LGH850f3ea9778 shell getprop
[  +35 ms] Error retrieving device properties for ro.product.cpu.abi:
[   +2 ms] error: insufficient permissions for device.
           See [http://developer.android.com/tools/device.html] for more information.
           
[   +3 ms] [✓] Connected devices
[        ]     • LGH850f3ea9778 • LGH850f3ea9778 • android-arm • Android null (API null)
[  +14 ms] "flutter doctor" took 1,453ms.
[ +239 ms] ensureAnalyticsSent: 237ms
[   +1 ms] exiting with code 0

[eseidelGoogle]

I've seen phones fail to display the auth dialog before. Unfortunately this all happens below flutter at the adb layer. :/ So there isn't much Flutter can do here, other than point you at try to reset developer permissions on the device, and you can then try to connect with adb devices directly and see if it shows it's authorized. The flutter tool is a relatively thin wrapper over the top of adb.

[ThePlatzhalter]

@eseidelGoogle Yes, adb devices shows the same error. However, if I restart adb as root, it works. Now, when I try running flutter as a normal user while the adb daemon running as root, flutter still shows the error. And flutter does not like being ran as root (and me neither ^^):

   Woah! You appear to be trying to run flutter as root.
   We strongly recommend running the flutter tool without superuser privileges.
  /
📎

Edit: I don't find any CLI option to turn this message off temporarily just to test it... Am I missing something?

[eseidelGoogle]

I would not expect you to need to run anything as root. :)

I might restart, just to make sure you don't have any adb-related processes left over from root and then try again? The permissions check should be entirely on the device-side rather than the host-side.

[ThePlatzhalter]

Yes, I restarted several times, but the error is dogged. "Normal" Java debugging in Android Studio works, by the way, so it has something to do with flutter or rather the ADB version flutter is using. Which is odd, because as far as I have read in the docs, it should use the installed ADB version on the system.

[eseidelGoogle]

It looks like the version of adb Flutter is using is at /home/linux/Android/Sdk/platform-tools/adb. I wonder if the one you ran as root was different? Do you know which version Android Studio is using?

[ThePlatzhalter]

Thanks. /home/linux/Android/Sdk/platform-tools/adb devices returns no permissions; see [http://developer.android.com/tools/device.html]. However, when I restart the server as root and then do the same, it works, and so does running flutter run afterwards. Thank you very much for your help!

Any ideas on how to fix this issue for good other than running sudo adb start-server before every coding session?

[eseidelGoogle]

Does your user have permission to access USB? To open ports? I'm not sure why root would be able to connect to your Android device but your user would not.

[vijaysaimutyala]

@ThePlatzhalter @eseidelGoogle
With debugging on, also set the device to be run as MTP(File Transfer) on Unix(Ubuntu 16.04). This helped me solve the same issue with Flutter on Ubuntu. Thanks to Cro on the below SO link.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28704636/insufficient-permissions-for-device-in-android-studio-workspace-running-in-opens

Hope we may close the issue.

[goderbauer]

We don't really know what to do on our side, it's an Android bug. Closing.

[paulobreim]

this error occurs when there are a adb daemon.

type: ps -axxx | grep adb

than kill the proccess and try gain

[charithjayasanka]

I was just able to get Flutter working on my computer after experiencing the same error message by adjusting the security mitigation s in Windows Defender.

It seems like ADB wasn't executing properly and some playing around with settings and which applications they applied to resulted in the following steps to resolve the issue:

Go to "Exploit Protection": Windows Security > App & browser control > Exploit Protection > Program Settings
Click on Add program to customize and select Choose exact file path
Select your adb.exe executable which in my case was
C:\Users\Charith Jayasanka\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\platform-tools\adb.exe
Scroll to the "Validate heap integrity" section and make sure the checkbox for Override system settings is checked, and the switch is in the Off position

[Pman143]

I had the same error, the solution for me was to rollback to a more stable version of adb.
This is what i did. Navigate to this location(WINDOWS)
C:\Users(YOUR PC NAME)\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\tools\bin

run this command on your terminal: sdkmanager --licenses

and accept all licences. Accept by typing Y and enter

[JokingWolf]

I have the same problem. How did you rollback you adb?
@Pman143